So this has been a crazy hectic and equally terrifying week in our Katimavik house. We haven`t had a Project Leader for almost a full week now. But here is the low down on our house right now mes amis (You can see that french isn`t going to waste on me)
So Monday Cole (other BC kid) and myself started our epic house managing week. We didn`t know how we were going to go grocery shopping, but then we find out Laura a PSL from the Saguenay area (I have no idea...yeah) is going to be with us. She came at around two oclock and that is when we went grocery shopping. She stayed with us until Tuesday
Wednesday no leader. We went to the YWCA to help set up for their fundraiser that they were having. Fun times...not really five of us went one hour early (including myself) and helped load donations into the van, in the hopes that we would be able to finish with that. Not quite the case. We had to go and help the others unload the boxes and then also set up all the tables and such. Cole and I ended up leaving an hour and a half before it was finished because otherwise we would have fallen WAY behind on all the things that we have to do as a House Manager.
Anyways, it also ended up me calling out a boy for being lazy (I have fought with said boy in the past-no names for obvious reasons) Our group agreed with me that he was being lazy, said boy walked off leaving the volunteer event and threatening to call our Project Coordinator to get us all written up with CTI`s (Commitment to Improve) We didn`t take to kindly to this and called the PC ourselves and explained the situation. Then we had a group meeting where we discussed his laziness, and him not listening or respecting anyone in the group. We questioned him as to why he hadn`t gotten anything worse than a verbal warning (He`s said rude things, people have talked to the PLs, he has a negative attitude, doesn`t take his fair share of the work, and so on and so forth-getting the picture?) The boy listened without listening, and it`s just frustrating knowing that even when we say things to him he doesn`t care enough to listen to us. In the end our chat resolved nothing, and our PL`s seem not to notice, and don`t listen to our cries. It surprised me that said boy is still here, he doesn`t even seem to want to be here. The rest of our group is as happy as a clam, but him...he just...I don`t even know what he is doing here anymore.
Thursday-We volunteered at an event where we collected money for Christmas hampers. On street corners, insert tons of jokes about how we look like prostitutes (hey, we`re teenagers) Helena, Jaz, Jill, and I were on one corner, and we were dancing waving and smiling at cars. We listened to music on Jazs phone and just had a good and happy time. The only negative was that we had to get up at five a.m. and then bus at five thirty. We worked until nine and then everyone else had to go to work afterwards. I felt bad for them, but hey I had to house manage after that!
Two weeks left of the program. Personally for me I feel like no one cares anymore. That we`re just coasting until we reach the finish line. We`re all checked out and no one wants to be here now. It is sad you would have thought that after living together for almost six months there would be more of a connection.
Travel plans as well today...always fun. Except I am not flying with the other BC kid. I fly alone the whole way...Great (notice the increased sense of sarcasm?) Jill-SK and Cole-BC fly together to toronto an hour before I do, and then they split up and take plans to their home provinces just before my plane lands in Toronto (From quebec city) so I am alone from start to finish. Everyone else in my group is taking the train (Via rail) back to their homes (Mostly ontario and three quebec kids)
Plane leaves quebec for toronto: 6:35
Plane lands in Toronto: 7:59
Plane leaves Toronto: 11:00
Plane lands in Vancouver: 1:07
So I am home in two weeks. I tell my mother I will see her in two weeks and it sounds weird...but honestly I am ready to go home.
NEXT POST: I promise you will have more pictures...its just I find it useless to take pictures when we aren`t happy. So I will steal them from other group members and place them on my blog. Darn the lack of pictures
TWO WEEKS?!?!?!
Awe girl times sound trying, but I feel although we were close before we left, we had just recovered from conflict and my one good friend and roomate had a HUGE calendar on her wall that was a countdown until the end. Make the most of it, trust me you will miss it... but only once it's over. You guys will be in eachothers arms sobbing soon enough! Best of luck!
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